Informal walkabout of the #AMANDLA![Re]form,Debate,[Re]dress? exhibition: Michael Selekane (participating artist) discussing his artwork.
The artworks selected for the #AMANDLA![Re]form,Debate,[Re]dress? Exhibition, curated by Tshegofatso Seoka, were sourced from the Permanent Collections of some of South Africa’s most prestigious art museums, galleries and art institutions. These include Oliewenhuis Art Museum, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Unisa Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Everard Read Gallery, and Legacy Visual Art Projects. The selection of artworks reflects contemporary representations of visual resistance by emerging, as well as established, South African artists and photographers. The exhibition consisted of traditional ‘Resistance Art’ artworks by William Kentridge, Dumeli Feni, Julian Motau and Norman Catherine, and more current artworks by Asanda Kupa, Ayanda Mabulu, Blessing Ngobeni, Michael Selekane, Ramatile Moalutsi and Setlamorago Mashilo. The aim of the exhibition was to visually explore concepts such as Traditional vs. Contemporary representations of ‘Resistance’, ‘Resistance and identity formation’, as well as, ‘Land and Space in South African representations of Resistance’.
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